Revelation 21:2

Revelation chapter 21 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, made ready as a bride adorned for her husband.

Context

v.1And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

v.2This passage

v.3And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and betheir God:

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Hebrews 12:22

    but ye are come unto mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable hosts of angels,

  • Revelation 21:10

    And he carried me away in the Spirit to a mountain great and high, and showed me the holy city Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,

  • Hebrews 13:14

    For we have not here an abiding city, but we seek after the city which is to come.

  • Ephesians 5:25

    Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it;

  • Hebrews 11:10

    for he looked for the city which hath the foundations, whose builder and maker is God.

  • Revelation 3:12

    He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.